The list starts in 1999 because that's when 1 Superior Place was completed. It was the first 500+ foot tower built in Chicago in many years and it signaled the return of large amounts of highrise construction to the city of Chicago after a bit of a hiatus during the mid 1990’s. Click on the individual building names to be taken to the corresponding Phorio building page to learn more and see pics/renderings. You can also click on the word “website” at the end of each building entry line in the list to be taken to the official project website to learn even more and for developer/marketing contact information.

The buildings are ranked according to the structural height per the guidelines of Phorio. Where no roof height is listed, it is either unknown or the structural height and the roof height are one and the same.

If anyone has any additions, subtractions, or other amendments, let me know.

Just the thread name. At some point, the "BOOM" is over, and the thread title becomes stale. This opportunity may or may not be a good place to draw the line (the projects continuing on today being, of course, products of the boom). As for ideas for a 6th-gen title, maybe "high-rises general thread" or "non-supertall high-rises" or something generic like that. Or we could stick with "boom" in a sort of broad and amorphous sense, and consider it a "millennium boom" in that it would be reflecting this century's new aesthetic, technological, political (e.g. pro-green), and economic (e.g. few corporate towers; rediscovery of urban residential; tourism explosion; etc.) paradigm. Makes me think we could start a new thread just to discuss what to name this thread...

The term boom is becoming increasingly inapt. Then again, compared to most other cities we have quite a few projects still left on the table. We were spoiled for a long time and now the rug has been pulled out from under us. We're a little bitter and crestfallen. But now is the time to start turning more attention to smaller projects that will continue to help develop the urban fabric.

The term boom is becoming increasingly inapt. Then again, compared to most other cities we have quite a few projects still left on the table. We were spoiled for a long time and now the rug has been pulled out from under us. We're a little bitter and crestfallen. But now is the time to start turning more attention to smaller projects that will continue to help develop the urban fabric.

Not only inapt, but increasingly cliché (which has bugged me for a while).

There are some pretty good looking project on the list. I'm excited for the future and I really do believe both Waterview and the Spire will straighten themselves out.

80 parking spaces, including 7 for the neighboring condo conversion which had spaces on that site in the past before the Jewish group purchased the site with the intent of building the now forever stalled community center.

I am Hydrogen, thanks for taking on the task of updating the boom rundown.

i_am_hydrogen - You may want to add the link for Flair Tower on the first page. And thanks for picking it up after the superb job that Steely Dan did. The first page has been a great source of information and I'm glad it will continue.

And what about the Flair Tower? The list says it's U/C - anybody who got some pictures? And why isn't there a website? I want some promising, shiny rendering video and price tables!

If you read the River North Residents page that you lifted those images from, you'd see that McCaffery, the developer, has changed Flair Tower into a rental building. Therefore, they do not need pre-sales or a marketing campaign, since they don't need to sell units. I assume they will begin marketing the building through the many apartment-finding services in the city.

Wow, somehow I hadn't seen this before. Really solid design. It looks like it will look awesome enough to help minimze the presence and butt-ugliness of the chestnut tower directly behind it (forget exact name), which I have always been somewhat repulsed by.

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Originally Posted by Chicago Shawn

This was posted on the last page of version 5..

Updated rendering of the taller design...

Updated Stats..
28 stories...360 feet (roof)...370 feet (Mechanical)

48 units ranging size from 2500-3500 square feet each

80 parking spaces, including 7 for the neighboring condo conversion which had spaces on that site in the past before the Jewish group purchased the site with the intent of building the now forever stalled community center.

I am Hydrogen, thanks for taking on the task of updating the boom rundown.